Robert C. Post Named Yale Law’s New Dean

It’s been rumored for a few weeks that Yale law professor Robert Post would get the nod to replace Harold Koh as dean of the law school after Koh was tapped to become a lawyer for the State Department.

Now it’s happened. Post, the David Boies Professor of Law at Yale, in an announcement made by Yale’s president, Richard Levin, was named the new law dean. According to his bio, Post (Harvard, Yale Law, Harvard Ph.D), taught at Berkeley’s law school — his areas of expertise include “constitutional law, First Amendment, legal history, and affirmative action.”